Our point of difference needs to be that we offer solutions to grievances which others enjoy exploiting.
@stephen_dorrell We Liberal Democrats need to take the opportunity to continue to make real progress.View quoted post on X
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Former Secretary of State for Health.Fomer Chair of Health Select Committee. Con MP for 36 years. Lib Dem Candidate in 2019. Chair @policy_projects.
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"I dont think we can necessarily assume that the Conservative and Labour dominance of the electorate for most of the post war period is necessarily going to survive". Sir John Curtice
'It is Nigel Farage and Reform UK who are profiting.'
Professor Sir John Curtice of the University of Strathclyde predicts Labour and Tory dominance may end, citing political fragmentation and alternative options amid the General Election petition continuing to gain signatures.View quoted post on X
The empty chair used to be a journalist's threat. It has become the evasion of choice.
At the start of the UK election campaign I opined that the Labour front bench was pretty B division (I had already said the same of the Tory front bench). That provoked Labour into boycotting my @TimesRadio lunchtime show. That boycott has remained in place ever since. No member of the Starmer government or official representative has ever agreed to appear to be questioned or held accountable. But events since give me no reason to reconsider my judgment. It still stands, vindicated by the record to date.View quoted post on X
Trump won, but why all the talk of a landslide? Trump has 312 Electoral College votes. In 16 elections since 1964 (when College last increased) Reagan won 525/489; Nixon 520; Johnson 486; Bush Snr 426; Clinton 379/370. 50.5% of the popular vote is a mandate, but not a landslide.
Working people (ie most of us) want to live in a society which grants us respect and the opportunity to progress. Liberal democracies have not delivered; they will be in trouble until they do.
@stephen_dorrell My guess is it is what millions want until it disappoints (as it will). The key currently is the incumbent effect. No electorate are satisfied.View quoted post on X
